Home

Advertisement

Customize

Living with Mangee - Sounds like my iPhoto library needs this too:

(Recent Entries) (Archive) (Friends) (User Info) (my Lifestream)

19th Feb, 2007

22:09:00 - Sounds like my iPhoto library needs this too:

Previous Entry Add to Memories Tell a Friend Next Entry

DOC looks for image archiving software

Ken Lewis
The Department of Conservation is requesting information on how to consolidate hundreds of thousands of digital images scattered between numerous databases and PCs into one software package.
The department says it currently has 40,000 digital images in a central store, plus several hundred thousand images in other databases and many thousands more scattered across servers and PCs around the country.
Link


My iPhoto Library currently has about 50,000 photos in it, and there is a stack of DVDs and CDs of photos (scanned and digital) in a box that need importing when I can be bothered. So yeah, DOC, i'll install iPhoto for you if you like, just don't ask me to tag them all. Maybe do a tag-yer-own thing like google. My stuff resides on the 3 TB of storage on my desk.

So yeah, a solution - iPhoto and websharing :)
Or just give everyone at DOC a flickr account, and use a series of group pools :)

Tags: , , , , ,
Current Mood: [mood icon] amused
Current Music: Run! - Heroes - Heroes, Season 1, Episode 15
(Post your thoughts)

Comments:

[User Picture]
From:[info]wasphantom
Date:19th February, 2007 (UTC)
(Link)
Wow, and I thought I was doing ok at 6000 images in iPhoto - how do you find it's search features? still responsive enough?
[User Picture]
From:[info]mangee
Date:19th February, 2007 (UTC)

iPhot with many photos.. is ok.

(Link)
iPhoto 4 was a dog, but iPhoto 6 is much better. It could do with another gig of ram (thumbnails in memory!) but in general i'm happy with it. If there is no ram free - a common occurrence when i'm rendering video, surfing the web with 40 tabs open, and transcoding av - it does run really sluggishly, and drags the computer down too. I have 2 gig - would like more.

I have been meaning to try Aperture and see if it's any better - but i'm not sure if my meta data will follow a change. I'd hate to re-tag them all. (not that they are all tagged)

About 6mo ago I had an issue where iPhoto was loading really slowly, and prompted for a thumbnail re-build - which never completed. I tried a few things and in the end exported my library laboriously adn imported it again. has worked fine since then.

Without a decent camera i've only taken 2000 photos so far this year. And most of them were [info]cabbettenz's WiggleBums.

Backups are a little fuzzy - i just mirror and increment the /Pictures folder on a external drive. Would love to try "TimeMachine" when it comes out.